Has anyone taken the ASCP specialty tests? I am thinking about trying to
take the blood bank one but not sure if it would help me career wise.
Kristine Quilici

I have been TWICE WRONGLY diagnosed with tuberculosis.
I was diagnosed with tuberculosis initially, then diagnosed with "atypical
tuberculosis" then diagnosed with mycobacterium chelonae infection. The
treatment was 20 tabs per day made up of tuberculosis meds and oral

I'm calculating our internal manual diff proficency.  The person who
did it before me used +/- 2 SD for results.  This leads to some big
spreads on the acceptable ranges for passing the proficency.  Is there
another calculation that I can do to identify the outliers? I would

What are the possibilities of determining the presence of a certain
chemical in a plasma or urin sample?
Are there institutions that provide a cheap scientific service of such
to citizens, with respect of privacy?